Overview

• An island-wide blackout began on April 16, 2025, at 12:40 p.m., leaving all 1.4 million electricity customers in Puerto Rico without power.
• Officials estimate that it will take 48 to 72 hours to restore electricity to 90% of customers, with hospitals and critical facilities relying on generators.
• The outage disrupted daily life, shutting down businesses, halting public transit, and leaving approximately 78,000 residents without water.
• The blackout, the second in four months, has intensified calls to terminate contracts with private operators Luma Energy and Genera PR over reliability concerns.
• Governor Jenniffer González, who returned early from a trip, pledged to address systemic grid vulnerabilities and called for an investigation into the outage's cause.